Brahms began composing his first piano concerto aged 21 as a tribute to Robert and Clara Schumann.

The momentous and percussive principal theme dominates the music from start to end with its flamboyance and virtuosity.

Brahms’ efforts to combine the orchestra and the piano as equal partners in a symphonic-scale structure are evident in this piece; it has been used to reinforce particularly dramatic moments in the British film The L-Shaped Room in 1963.

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